Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

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Phylum Subphylum Class Subclass Order Family Genus Species Anamorph
Basidiomycota Agaricomycotina Agaricomycetes Thelephorales Thelephoraceae Thelephora palmata
Authority(Scop.) Fr.



Septum / Pore Cap

Cell type: (BC) basidiocarp

Component: Hypha excluding ascogenous hypha/ascus

CharacteristicStateCodeImages
Uniperforate septa a single central pore 1 Images
Uniperforate septal pore margin septal pore swelling 3 Images
Membranous structures associated with septal pore(s) septal pore cap 1 Images
Woronin body type Woronin bodies absent 0 Images
Septal pore cap basic structure simple cap (cap with unelaborated abseptal surface) 2 Images
Detailed structure of elaborated septal pore cap elaborated cap absent 0 Images
Detailed structure of simple septal pore cap cap multiperforate, small pores 3 Images
Saccules of elaborated pore cap lined with external electron-dense layer absent 0  
Substructure of pore cap cap with three internal layers (central electron-dense layer between two less electron dense layers) 3 Images
Pore cap enclosed by endoplasmic reticulum absent 0 Images
Multiperforate septum multiperforate septum absent 0 Images
Sources
Notes Authors describe that septal swellings present two fan-shaped formations of electrondense granular material that extends into microfibrils.
Character Quality Fair
Fixation glutaraldehyde with osmium postfix
Study Complete No
Author Patrignani, G. and Pellegrini,S.
Date 1986
Source Caryologia 39: 239-250
Source of character Basidiocarp
Voucher Notes Collected by members of Mycological Society of Italy and Borgo Val di Taro.

Cell type: (BC) basidiocarp

Component: Basidium/basidiocarp

CharacteristicStateCodeImages
Septal pore cap enclosed by endoplasmic reticulum in basidiomycete sporocarp absent 0 Images
Sources
Character Quality Fair
Fixation glutaraldehyde with osmium postfix
Study Complete No
Author Patrignani, G. and Pellegrini,S.
Date 1986
Source Caryologia 39: 239-250
Source of character Basidiocarp
Voucher Notes Collected by members of Mycological Society of Italy and Borgo Val di Taro.

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